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What numbers are considered cursed?

Various, and in different peoples. The “curse”, in general, has to do with the culture, religion and history of a people, in addition to the phonetics of the language – the Japanese and Chinese, for example, are afraid of numbers…

What is tonic water made of?

»> Sparkling water, sugar and quinine hydrochloride, a salt. Salt? That’s right, what differentiates tonic water from other soft drinks is precisely the salt, which gives that characteristic bitter taste of tonic. Quinine, which makes up the salt used in…

Do snuff movies really exist?

ILLUSTRATES Icarus Yuji Fortunately no. The legend about the existence of films in which the actors actually died in front of the cameras began to spread in the 1970s. The Family – The Story of Charles Manson’s Dune Buggy Attack…

How is sausage made?

The most common, used in hot dogs and other popular recipes, is made on automated production lines, with virtually no human contact and with strict hygiene steps. This belies the myth that sausage factories are still loathsome environments, with blood…

What is Tupi-Guarani mythology like?

Illustrates Danyael LopesEdition Felipe van Deursen Based on a structure created by the Jesuits. O «tupi-guarani” is the generic term for a group of indigenous languages ​​in South America. mythology of the people who spoke the tupi-Guarani did not have…